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COVID AMA: Is Covid-19 Airborne?

A researcher at Peking University's Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics conducting tests at their laboratory, Thursday, May 14, 2020.
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A researcher at Peking University's Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics conducting tests at their laboratory, Thursday, May 14, 2020.

In our continuing series looking at the latest medical research and news on COVID-19, Larry speaks with Dr. Shruti Gohil, professor of medicine and associate medical director for epidemiology and infection prevention at UC Irvine’s School of Medicine.

In our continuing series looking at the latest medical research and news on COVID-19, Larry speaks with Dr. Shruti Gohil, professor of medicine and associate medical director for epidemiology and infection prevention at UC Irvine’s School of Medicine.

Topics today include:

  • A letter signed by hundreds of experts urging WHO to declare the coronavirus as also an airborne disease 

  • RNA experiments and how they figure into the development of a coronavirus vaccine

  • Chiropractors and Covid cure?

  • Criticism over the handling of Covid is being increasingly directed at state and city leaders -- is it fair?

Guests:

Ann Marie Carlton, professor of chemistry at UC Irvine; she is one of the 240 signatories on the letter urging the World Health Organization to address airborne transmission of COVID-19 

Shruti Gohil, M.D., professor of medicine and associate medical director for epidemiology and infection prevention at UC Irvine’s School of Medicine

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